Re: Avoid "permission denied" in find command

[Brian McPherson <bamcpher@xxxxxxx>]

Ah, csh doesn't allow seperating the stdout and stderr. What I 
previously stated will work in bash. You'll need to redirect both of 
them to the next command (Like more, or less).

find / |& more

The |& is what specifies both stderr and stdout.

-Brian McPherson


Jacob Fugal wrote:
> I tried this on csh on a machine with:
>
> SunOS hostname 5.6 Generic_105181-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
>
> And I got:
>
> hostname% find /dir -name "foo*" 2>/dev/null
> find: bad option 2
> find: path-list predicate-list
>
> Jacob Fugal
> jpfugal@xxxxxxx
>
>
> Brian McPherson wrote:
> > Jacob Fugal wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know a good way to avoid the "find: cannot read dir ' . 
> > > . . . ' Permission denied" lines when executing the find command. In 
> > > my experience it buries the useful information. I tried grep, but it 
> > > appears that the | grep only gets the output and find pours this not 
> > > very useful message to stderr. My only way around it is to sudo 
> > > find, but I'm not sudo on every machine. Any ideas? It's really 
> > > annoying.
> > >
> > > Jacob Fugal
> > > jpfugal@xxxxxxx
> >
> > find foo 2> /dev/null
> >
> >
> > Sends stderr to /dev/null.
> >
> > -Brian McPherson